Knowing about yourself isn't the same as knowing yourself.
Many of us have taken a test that handed us a type. It may have felt accurate, even helpful, and then life went on much the way it had. A label can describe you, but it rarely changes anything.
Personal Insight works with something you can change, which is what you do: the patterns you repeat, the choices you make under pressure, the way you act when it matters. Those can be noticed and understood, and over time you can choose differently, at any age and in any life.
It begins with you. It doesn't stop there.
Everything LionsLead builds moves in one direction, from seeing yourself clearly, to choosing on purpose, to the difference it makes for everyone around you. Personal Insight is where that starts.
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Know Yourself
Your patterns come into view, clearly and without judgment.
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Lead Yourself
What you notice becomes a choice you make on purpose, again and again.
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Influence Others
You already shape the people around you. Here, more of that becomes yours to choose.
How Personal Insight works
Answer
A short set of questions about how you tend to notice, respond and choose. There are no right answers, only yours.
Recognize
A short video puts words to something you may have felt but never said, and you choose the statements that ring true.
Reflect
Insight in Dr. Dan's voice, shaped by what you chose, helps you see the fuller picture of what goes on inside you and between you and others.
Practice
Four days of practice in your everyday life, with short messages along the way. Then the next milestone opens, a little deeper.
Six pathways, one journey
Personal Insight is designed as six pathways, taken in order, each one opening the next. Together they trace one life, from coming to know yourself all the way to learning to endure. Each pathway holds four milestones, and every milestone goes a little deeper into the same ground.
Self-Awareness comes first, and the pathways open in order from there.
- 01Self-AwarenessStarts here
- 02Emotional Awareness
- 03Wise Thinking
- 04Purposeful Living
- 05Living with Fire
- 06Resilience
The person behind it
Built from a lifetime of watching what changes people, and what doesn't.
Dr. Daniel Snively has spent more than fifty years in leadership development. He has served as an executive in two organizations, coached thousands of leaders and managers, worked with more than three hundred organizations, and spent two and a half years field-testing thirty-seven behavior-based tools before building his own approach.
Through all of it he kept seeing the same gap, between being informed and being transformed. LionsLead is what he built to help people cross it, and Personal Insight is where it starts.
Profound reflection is the heart and engine of transformation.
Dr. Daniel Snively
- 50+years in leadership development
- 300+organizations worked with
- 37behavior-based tools field-tested before building his own
Everyone influences someone.
You don't have to think of yourself as a leader. The people in your life are already being shaped by you, and you by them. Personal Insight was written to speak to you, whatever your age and wherever you are in life.
The first pathway is Self-Awareness. It turns toward the person you've spent the most time with, and perhaps asked the fewest questions.
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Questions
Is this a personality test?
Not the kind you've probably taken. It begins with a short set of questions, and your answers shape what you see next, but you're never handed a type, a score or a label. Each milestone closes with practice in your own life.
Do I need to be a leader?
No. Personal Insight is for anyone who wants to understand the influence they already have and choose it on purpose.
How does the pace work?
Each milestone closes with four days of practice in your everyday life, and the next milestone opens once you've finished, as new milestones are released. Beyond that, you move at your own pace.
Can a group go through it together?
Yes. Each person moves through it on their own, and a group can begin together. Write to us at support@thelionslead.com and we'll talk through what fits.